Soaring copper prices prompt a blow-out quarter for mining giant Freeport-McMoran. But is an encore performance likely?

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The second quarter of the year has turned out to be astonishing for base metals. But can they sustain their gains or will they slowly melt away? Stockpiling by the Chinese stimulus plans that were heavily concentrated on infrastructure and a drop in production helped base metals utilize basic macro and microeconomic principles to enable a rally. This recent rally is hardly sustainable and is most likely short-lived. The gains that have been seen in aluminum copper and other industrial metals have been caused by the phenomenon of reverting back to the mean; after all the industry was badly ...

Freeport McMoran's stock price has been climbing back up after being decimated in 2008. Is there an upcoming gold move?

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